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If DLC and ES come up hot like McClain, and right now they're as hot as new suns exploding in the galaxies, and the Reds stay in the hunt, Joey fits as part-time DH, part-time on field. Steer is a leading candidate for ROY, even playing out of position. You simply can't penalize him. That's far more unfair than not playing Votto and violating some stupid unwritten code about vets. Votto has much to prove when he returns. I think playing part time without the everyday pressure will work for both him and Bell. He's a nightmare on the bases, which will badly handicap the current, very speedy version of the Reds.

And start playing DeLaCruz in LF in Louisville. Why haven't they? Dumb. The kid is ultra fast, tall. That has OF written all over it. Windows appear out of nowhere. Seize the day. Get them all up here and figure it out.

As a longtime organic gardener, I forewarn you. Lawns are petrochemical addiction machines, fed us by the advertising world, that invite numnuts who have no idea what soil is, how to keep it healthy, or how to respect it, to march straight into their local box stores and buy concoctions that they rarely understand and don't care anyway. They come out like cowboys armed with the latest six shooters, go home, and proceed to kill more creatures in a day than were killed in any war of the last century. Then they pop a beer and compliment themselves, assassins of the finest American degree. If you don't respect the earth, you don't respect life. A great looking lawn is usually an illusion and environmental catastrophe, America the dumb at its finest.

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I agree on EDC. He’d be a stud outfielder and I doubt he’d play SS as effectively as McClain based on what we’ve seen from him so far.

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